general issues

[mjpost]

Hi @Olamyy,

Thanks, it's starting to take shape! I think we're getting close to something we could distribute and use, but there are a few more issues. Here are some. Perhaps we could create separate issues for these, and then you could create PRs against my fork that you could comment on?

• --show-output should be -v|--verbose. It should write to STDERR via a logger. Instead of printing a fancy table, it would be easier to read output like this:

  Matched key $KEY to Anthology paper ID $ID

  where $KEY and $ID are variables defined by the cite key and the match

• --output should also allow -o. You shouldn't also need --write_to_output. --output should be an open file stream for outputting, either a file or sys.stdout, and you just print to it, whatever it is.

• The input file stream should default to sys.stdin, so that any of the following use cases work:

  cat in.bib | ./script.py > out.bib ./script.py in.bib > out.bib ./script.py in.bib out.bib

• --concise should default to "false". This should be a flag (that doesn't require an argument of 1 to turn on, just its presence should suffice)

Finally, when rewriting, you are losing author formatting. e.g.,

    author = "Erk, Katrin  and
      Smith, Noah A.",

gets output as

  author    = "Erk, Katrin  and
Smith, Noah A.",

[Olamyy]

Hello @mjpost , I've fixed the issue you raised and everything should work file now.

[mjpost]

Awesome! I will look at this next week (after Tuesday).